Weekend Box Office: 'It Ends with Us' and 'Alien: Romulus' Both Top $300 Million

All of the non-'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' news, including a strong hold for 'Reagan'

And here I thought there wouldn’t be much box office holdover news in the wake of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice topping domestically ($110 million) and worldwide ($146 million). It’s still worth noting that the overall weekend cume was around $152 million, which was +70% from this frame last year and +10% from this post-labor weekend in 2019 (when It Chapter Two opened with “only” $91 million). That’s not to say that every weekend requires tentpole-sized openers, and it’s worth remembering that in a healthy marketplace, you want some weekends where smaller films can thrive and everything else can leg out a little. Still, it’s a reminder that A) tentpoles can open anywhere and B) the theatrical marketplace can return to approximate mid-2010s levels if the product is provided. When Hollywood shows up, audiences show up, too.

In today’s holdover weekend box office report -

• Reagan nears $20 million domestic after ten days of release

• Alien: Romulus and It Ends with Us both top $300 million worldwide

• Deadpool & Wolverine nears $1.3 billion as Inside Out 2 tops Jurassic World

• Blink Twice, a $20 million, R-rated original, might reach $50 million globally

• M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap is a small(er)scale success story.

• Strange Darling is a promising start for newbie Magenta Light Studios

• Coraline A) can’t be reasoned with, B) can’t be bargained with, C) doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear and D) absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.